In Youth I Have Known One Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDCEE A FEFGFGHH A AIJIAIKK L KMKMKMNNI | A |
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In youth I have known one with whom the Earth | B |
In secret communing held as he with it | C |
In daylight and in beauty from his birth | B |
Whose fervid flickering torch of life was lit | C |
From the sun and stars whence he had drawn forth | D |
A passionate light such for his spirit was fit | C |
And yet that spirit knew not in the hour | E |
Of its own fervor what had o'er it power | E |
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II | A |
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Perhaps it may be that my mind is wrought | F |
To a ferver by the moonbeam that hangs o'er | E |
But I will half believe that wild light fraught | F |
With more of sovereignty than ancient lore | G |
Hath ever told or is it of a thought | F |
The unembodied essence and no more | G |
That with a quickening spell doth o'er us pass | H |
As dew of the night time o'er the summer grass | H |
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III | A |
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Doth o'er us pass when as th' expanding eye | A |
To the loved object so the tear to the lid | I |
Will start which lately slept in apathy | J |
And yet it need not be that object hid | I |
From us in life but common which doth lie | A |
Each hour before us but then only bid | I |
With a strange sound as of a harp string broken | K |
T' awake us 'Tis a symbol and a token | K |
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IV | L |
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Of what in other worlds shall be and given | K |
In beauty by our God to those alone | M |
Who otherwise would fall from life and Heaven | K |
Drawn by their heart's passion and that tone | M |
That high tone of the spirit which hath striven | K |
Though not with Faith with godliness whose throne | M |
With desperate energy 't hath beaten down | N |
Wearing its own deep feeling as a crown | N |
Edgar Allan Poe
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